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Medical Forum / General / Vision / April 20062 I.V. bags made my vision crystal clear???
OK this was bizarre. I was recently diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. Before being diagnosed I was getting the usual symtpoms: unquentionable thirst, blurred vision, etc. The endocrinologist put me on insulin and metformin and we still had a hard time controlling it, and they started to think type 1. One incident I had to go to the ER because my blood sugar was up to 400. They brought it back down by giving me 2 or more bags of IV fluid quickly, and some insulin as well. This brought my blood sugar to normal but had a VERY strange side effect: my vision was as crystal clear after I left as it was over 10 years ago when it was better than 20/20. The only thing different was the IV fluid. It was so good that putting on my glasses made my vision blurry, not clear! I am on Byetta and Metformin now, and my blood sugar is never outside the normal range. In fact it's tightly in the normal range and my A1C is A+. However, the razor clear vision I experienced for SEVERAL DAYS after the IV fluid went away despite the fact that my blood sugar is phenomenal now. Drinking lots of water in an attempt to mimic the effect of the IV fluid has been to no avail. Any ideas under what circumstances giving someone 2 or 3 bags of IV fluid could dramatically improve their vision and why?? I'd like to get that vision back, since obviously I am capable of it, I just don't know what is preventing me from having it that bags of IV fluid brings out. Thanks in advance. :) > OK this was bizarre. > One incident I had to go to the ER because my blood sugar was up to > 400. They brought it back down by giving me 2 or more bags of IV fluid [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > 20/20. The only thing different was the IV fluid. It was so good that > putting on my glasses made my vision blurry, not clear! > Any ideas under what circumstances giving someone 2 or 3 bags of IV > fluid could dramatically improve their vision and why?? I'd like to get > that vision back, since obviously I am capable of it, I just don't know > what is preventing me from having it that bags of IV fluid brings out. > > Thanks in advance. :) Have you seen an eye doctor? Do not walk, run! Diabetes causes two types of vision problems, one short term and one long term. The short term one isn't so serious, as far as your eyes are concerned. I'm guessing that you just need new glasses. The long term effects are permanent and irreversible.  SignatureDan Abel dabel@sonic.net Petaluma, California, USA > One incident I had to go to the ER because my blood sugar was up to > 400. They brought it back down by giving me 2 or more bags of IV fluid [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > 20/20. The only thing different was the IV fluid. It was so good that > putting on my glasses made my vision blurry, not clear! Diabetes causes transient changes in refraction because thick, syrupy blood makes the aqueous humor thick and syrupy, so that it draws water out of the crystalline lens and makes it shrink. In some cases the change is "beneficial" and in others it goes the wrong way. In either case, it's usually transient. When BG is restored to normal the lens "inflates" back to its previous dimensions. -MT Bringing the blood sugar down to normal cleared the vision. Very high blood sugar causes changes in the lens of your eye which increase myopia, when blood sugar is normal, so is the lens. Likely your blood sugar has been too high for a long time and your glasses had the correction for myopia. > Bringing the blood sugar down to normal cleared the vision. Very high > blood sugar causes changes in the lens of your eye which increase > myopia, when blood sugar is normal, so is the lens. Likely your blood > sugar has been too high for a long time and your glasses had the > correction for myopia. My diabetes has been brought completely under control by Byetta and Metformin. My blood sugar is NEVER outside the normal range. My A1C (average blood sugar for 2 months) was under 6.5 which is the best it can be, considered "A+". I'm still confused about vision though. After those I.V. bags I had vision as good as I had 15 years ago for several days...... it was really, really nice. Now, even though my blood sugar is flawless my vision is back to where it was before. Why would simply getting 2 or 3 I.V. bags give me vision like a hawk for a few days? Literally, during that period of several days putting my glasses on actually made my vision WORSE - it was *that* clear! I'm very, very pleased that my diabetes is under such great control but I would really like to have that razor vision I had after the I.V. bags back again. It seems to me that if my eyes are still capable of seeing like that, there must be a way to bring that clear vision back? i think all you will have to do to get your sharp vision back again is to go to the eye doctor and get new glasses. now that your blood sugar has stabilized your refraction will have stabilized also so your new glasses should work well. good luck. > i think all you will have to do to get your sharp vision back again is > to go to the eye doctor and get new glasses. now that your blood > sugar has stabilized your refraction will have stabilized also so > your new glasses should work well. > > good luck. OP says he could see well withóut glasses with the IV. That is what he wants back, but Doug, I think as one of the other people here said it's just some temperarily fluke because of the diabetis incident for which you got the IV. Just try for fun to ask the hospital to give you an IV bag now and you'll probably see it won't do anything special for your sight. SF <<I think as one of the other people here said it's just some temperarily fluke because of the diabetis incident for which you got the IV.>> That was really SOME fluke though... especially since my vision was razor sharp for DAYS. Even when driving at night, which was my worst time. It would be a real shame to have experienced that with no way to get it back. :( The only other thing I can think of is this: the same time that happened, I had chronic sinusitis. It was bad enough (cysts and polyps obstructing 50% of certain sinuses) that I had to have surgery for it recently. The only other thing I could think of as a reason is that perhaps the sinusitis had some impact on my vision and the I.V. fluids somehow helped temporarily? When your blood glucose is high you also have an elevated glucose in the aqueous. The glucose in the aqueous passes through the lens capsule increasing the osmotic pressure in the lens causing it to imbibe fluid and changing shape, altering your refractive error. This is why you saw so well; you were lucky that it happened to "hit the nail on the head" causing a desirable refractive error. The glucose passes easily through the lens capsule but it changes to sorbitol once inside the lens and sorbitol does not so easily pass across the lens capsule. Therefore your vision will change abruptly when your blood sugar rises but will return to normal much more slowly. It was not the IV fluid that helped your refractive error, it was the alteration in blood (and at the same time) aqueous glucose. Ted. It was probably due to sudden transient differential changes in the index of refraction of the different tissues and aqueous humor. Once the changes equilibrated, the effect was lost. It is the difference in the index of refraction from one medium to the adjacent medium that causes light to bend. DrG |
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